A Buddhist Prayer

May I purify the power of karma,May I crush the powers of delusion,May I render powerless the powerful maras,And may I perfect the powers of sublime ways.May I purify an ocean of realms,May I liberate an ocean of sentient beings,May I see an ocean of truths,And may I realize an ocean of wisdom.May I perform an ocean of perfect deeds,May I perfect an ocean of prayers,May I revere an ocean of buddhas,And may I practice untiringly for an ocean of eons.Through my practice of the sublime bodhisattva waysMay I gain the enlightenment of buddhahoodAnd then fulfill the enlightened and sublime aspirationOf the buddhas past, present, and future.- From the King of Prayers

HYMN TO *PANU

OPANU,Son of the Sun!Offspring thou of the dear day.Lift the fire up to the sky.In the middle of the golden ring,Within the rock of copper,Carry it as a child to its motherInto the lap of the ancient mother.Place the fire to shine by day,And to rest at night.Let it rise every morningLet it rest every eveningA Finnish Prayer(*Panu, is God of fire, child of the Sun-mother)

A Buddhist Prayer

May I never be separated from the good friendsWho reveal the path of the sublime waysAnd who wish only to benefit me;May I never disappoint them for even a moment.May I constantly envision the perfect buddhas,The protectors who are surrounded by bodhisattvas,And in the future may I never wearyOf devoting myself to them with all my strength.May I forever uphold the holy Dharma of the buddhasAnd illumine the sublime way of enlightenment;May I practice throughout all future agesThe ways of deeds of the sublime path.- Samantabhadra DevotionsThe King of Prayers

Invocation to Waters

YE, Waters, are beneficent: so help ye us to energyThat we may look on great delight.Give us a portion of the sap, the most auspicious that ye have,Like mothers in their longing love.To you we gladly come for him to whose abode ye send us on;And, Waters, give us procreant strength.The Waters. be to us for drink, Goddesses for our aid and bliss:Let them stream to us health and strength.1 beg the Floods to give us balm, these Queens who rule o'er precious things,And have supreme control of men.Within the Waters-Soma thus hath told me-dwell all balms that heal,And Agni, he who blesseth all.O Waters, teem with medicine to keep my body safe from harm,So that I long may see the Sun.Whatever sin is found in me, whatever evil I have wrought,If I have lied or falsely sworn, Waters, remove it far from me.The Waters I this day have sought, and to their moisture have we come:O Agni, rich in milk, come thou, and with thy splendour cover me.- Rigveda, Invocation to Waters

Prayer to Visvakarman (Architect of the Universe)

THE Father of the eye, the Wise in spirit, created both these worlds submerged in fatness.Then when the eastern ends were firmly fastened, the heavens and the earth were far extended.Mighty in mind and power is Visvakarman, Maker, Disposer, and most lofty Presence.Their offerings joy in rich juice where they value One, only One, beyond the Seven Rsis.Father who made us, he who, as Disposer, knoweth all races and all things existing,Even he alone, the Deities' narne-giver, him other beings seek for information.To him in sacrifice they offered treasures, Rsis of old, in numerous troops, as singers,Who, in the distant, near, and lower region, made ready all these things that have existence.That which is earlier than this earth and heaven, before the Asuras and Gods had being,-What was the germ primeval which the waters received where all the Gods were seen together?The waters, they received that germ primeval wherein the Gods were gathefed all together.It rested set upon the Unborn's navel, that One wherein abide all things existing.Ye will not find him who produced these creatures: another thing hath risen up among you.Enwrapt in misty cloud, with lips that stammer, hymn-chanters wander and are discontented.-Rigveda

HAIL to our Mother

HAIL to our Mother who makesthe yellow flowers to bloomwho scatters the seeds of themaguey as she comes from theLand Divine!Hail to our Mother who casts forthwhite flowers in abundance!Hail to our Mother who shines inthe thorn bush as a bright butterfly!Ho ! She is our Mother—the womangod of the earth. In the desertshe feeds the wild beasts, andgives them to live.Thus—thus you see her ever abundantin gifts to all flesh.And as you see the goddess of earthgive to the beasts, so also she isgiving to the green herbs and thefishes.Hail to our Mother who casts forthyellow flowers to the sun from theLand Divine!A Mexican prayer to Teteo-inan, the Mother of Gods

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